history of computer

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  • ERA 1101 introduced

    ERA 1101 introduced
    THE ERA 1101 computer is a singleaddress
    binary -system parallel computer
    using magnetic drum memory.
    The word length is 24 binary digits,
    equivalent to seven decimal digits plus
    sign. The logic is quite conventional.
    https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/afips/1951/5040/00/50400043.pdf

  • Magnavox Odyssey

    Magnavox Odyssey
    The Magnavox Odyssey is the first commercial home video game console.

  • IBM 650 magnetic drum calculator introduced

    IBM 650 magnetic drum calculator introduced
    The IBM 650 Magnetic Drum Data Processing Machine was announced 2 July 1953 (as the "Magnetic Drum Calculator", or MDC), but not delivered until December 1954 (same time as the NORC). Principal designer: Frank Hamilton, who had also designed ASCC and SSEC. Two IBM 650s were installed at IBM Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at Columbia University, 612 West 116th Street, beginning in August 1955.

  • SEAC and SWAC completed

    SEAC and SWAC completed
    The Standards Eastern Automatic Computer (SEAC) is among the first stored-program computers completed in the United States.http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1950/

  • the firs tcellphone was introduced

    the firs tcellphone was introduced
    The world’s first mobile phone call was made on April 3, 1973, when Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, called a rival telecommunications company and informed them he was speaking via a mobile phone. Link text

  • Apple 1

    Apple 1
    Apple-1, was released by the Apple Computer Company in 1976. It was designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak.

  • Osborne 1

    Osborne 1
    the Osborne 1 is considered to be the first true portable, full-featured computer.

  • usb flash drive

    usb flash drive
    The first USB technology began development in 1994, co-invented by Ajay Bhatt of Intel and the USB-IF (USB Implementers Forum, Inc).

  • tesla

    tesla
    Tesla was founded not by Elon Musk, but rather by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in July 2003.

  • the first iphone was introduced

    the first iphone was introduced
    On January 9, 2007 Steve Jobs put sneaker to stage to give one of the most incredible keynote presentations of his life—a life filled with incredible keynote presentations—and in the history of consumer electronics. http://www.imore.com/history-iphone-original